Talib Kweli: An Astounding Artist Who's Not Afraid to Express Himself

Incredibly talented Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli has wowed us with yet another album. With his genuine feelings of love spread out on some tracks to his socially conscious and charged appeals to the black community, Kweli has a talent that is unparalleled by most other hip-hop artists today. This album really shows his real lyrical prowess and talent in creating metaphors and also exhibits the skills of many other people featured on his songs such as Bilal, Mos Def and DJ Quik.

As always, I review each song on the cd, talk about it a little (the lyrics, the beat, what I feel it's meaning is) then I proceed to quote one of my favorite lyrics from the song underneath the description in italics. I do this to really give the consumer a real feel for every song, not just a few that could be good or bad.

1. Keynote Speaker (Intro)
This is a really funny intro done by Dave Chapelle. I found out when I got this album that he actually did the intro for Kweli's Reflection Eternal album where he pretended to be Nelson Mandela, and people didn't actually know it was Chapelle. Anyway, I think the intro is hilarious and you need to hear it for yourself, so I'm not going to give you any lyric quotes from it. But trust me, its funny.